Events on Thursday, June 12
Thursday 6/12 @ Herbst Pavilion, Fort Mason Center
Housed at Fort Barry's scenic coastal location since the '80s, the Headlands Center for the Arts nurtures emerging and veteran artists...
Thursday 6/12 @ Bottom of the Hill
The Subhumans perfectly embodied the raw, inclusive vitality of early 1980s UK anarcho-punk. When the group broke up, most of the...
Thursday 6/12 @ City Lights
One of the mavericks who helped to launch the Critical Mass bike demonstrations, Chris Carlsson is in a unique position to...
Thursday 6/12 @ Rickshaw Stop
Tonight's a double bill for connoisseurs of damaged guitar rock. Battles beat Singer to the punch as the first post-rock supergroup,...
Thursday 6/12 @ JCC East Bay
After debuting on the festival circuit in 2001, Sandi Simcha DuBowski's compassionate documentary about the lives of gay and lesbian Hasidic...
Thursday 6/12 @ Cafe du Nord
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Ongoing Events
Thursday 6/12 @ Varnish Fine Art
Bay Area Now 5 doesn't hit the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts until July, but ArtSpan has the jump on...
Thursday 6/12 @ American Conservatory Theater
Passions run hot, and blood flows freely in ACT's riveting production of John Ford's grim, rarely staged 17th-century revenge story. Michael...
Thursday 6/12 @ GLBT Historical Society
Like chrome-and-leather-swathed valkyries rumbling down Market Street, Dykes on Bikes have long been the kickoff contingent of the San Francisco Pride...
Amanda M. Smith: Candy Garden and Sparkling Sabers
Thursday 6/12 @ Jack Fischer Gallery
Little children run amok in Amanda M. Smith's series of exquisitely rendered ceramic reliefs. Set in a vivid world of flattened,...
Thursday 6/12 @ Oakland Museum of California
Fashion designer Christian Lacroix put it most directly: "...the history of cool in America is the history of African-American culture." That...
Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place
Thursday 6/12 @ SF Camerawork
Alan B. Stone's crisp black-and-white photography tells two tales of Montreal. One concerns the changes Stone's hometown underwent during mayor Jean...
Thursday 6/12 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
Between Azar Nafisi's memoir Reading Lolita in Tehran and Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel (and now animated feature) Persepolis, post-revolutionary autobiography has...
Thursday 6/12 @ Museum of Craft and Folk Art
Recognized worldwide as a cultural symbol, the American flag is an object that elicits many personal and political emotions and interpretations....
Louder, Faster: Punk in Performance
Thursday 6/12 @ Pacific Film Archive Theater
Not much new can be said about punk. The gnarled, trans-Atlantic family tree running from Iggy Pop to Johnny Rotten, and...
Thursday 6/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Michael Haneke's 2007 English-language remake of his notorious Funny Games (1997) hit US theaters with the unexpected wallop of a hard...
Thursday 6/12 @ Gregory Lind Gallery
Karla Wozniak's exhibition of new paintings takes a shot at the endless string of strip malls and billboards that lines nearly...
Thursday 6/12 @ Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
American culture always seems poised to pronounce feminism down for the count, when it clearly still has plenty of fighting to...
Reclaiming Materials: Four Sculptors Recycle
Thursday 6/12 @ Sculpturesite Gallery
One person's trash is another person's treasure — or sculpture, as is the case at Sculpturesite's current exhibition of art works...
Thursday 6/12 @ Root Division
From the tony white walls of 49 Geary to the warehouse studios in Hunter's Point, SF lays claim to nearly every...
Thursday 6/12 @ Southern Exposure
With elections around the corner, many Americans are dreaming of change, but this group of artists remains skeptical, exploring moments of...
Thursday 6/12 @ SFMOMA
Los Angeles artist Paul Sietsema presents an exceptional body of recent drawings and films in SFMOMA's New Work series. Sietsema straddles...
Thursday 6/12 @ Various locations
The San Francisco Black Film Festival premiered in 1998 as a one-day event. Ten years make quite a difference: this year's...
Thursday 6/12 @ Berkeley Art Museum
Trevor Paglen photographs what we can't see — and what the government doesn't want us to see. Using a battery of...
Thursday 6/12 @ SFMOMA
As a New German Cinema progenitor obsessed with stylish reconstructions of his country's troubled 20th-century history, R.W. Fassbinder had a natural...
Thursday 6/12 @ Fraenkel Gallery
Christian Marclay pioneered the turntable as a musical instrument in the late '70s, scratching out experimental sounds with vinyl found in...
Thursday 6/12 @ Babylon Falling
The Reggae Scrapbook is a love letter from two eternal fanboys to Jamaica's best-known export. Drawing from their memories, publications, and...
Thursday 6/12 @ Creativity Explored
Creativity Explored has long been an outlet for local developmentally challenged adults to express their artistic visions. Now celebrating its 25th...
Thursday 6/12 @ San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
When 19th-century wildlife artist John James Audubon cataloged the birds of North America, he painted the creatures in pristine environments. With...
Thursday 6/12 @ Gallery 16
Illustrator Leigh Wells builds collages over discarded reproductions of of great masters. Her new exhibition at Gallery 16 delights in little...
Thursday 6/12 @ Ratio 3
Ryan McGinley's metier is youth. The often smiling, and more often nude men and women cavorting in his photos are like...
Within Two Hands: The Eye of the Collector
Thursday 6/12 @ San Francisco Museum of Craft+Design
Peter Voulkos founded the Arts Ceramics departments at both Los Angeles' Otis College of Art and Design and UC-Berkeley in the...
Thursday 6/12 @ Jack Hanley Gallery
Mission School alum Alicia McCarthy has been cleaning out her closet — at least that's the impression one gets from this...
Thursday 6/12 @ Eleanor Harwood Gallery
David M. Stein's first solo show of improbable objects should provoke double takes, plus a chuckle or two. In The Unlikely...
Thursday 6/12 @ Robert Koch Gallery
Amy Stein's twisted fables are a far cry from anything Aesop ever wrote. Unlike the tales of ancient storybooks, Stein's photographic...
Thursday 6/12 @ Triple Base
Suzanne Husky's installations resemble playrooms where the dolls have broken loose. But the miniature worlds she creates, rife with greed and...
Thursday 6/12 @ Electric Works
Pinball machines have largely been relegated to the scrap yard of nostalgia, but that hasn't stopped William T. Wiley from resurrecting...
Thursday 6/12 @ Roxie Theater
Now in its fifth year, the SF Indie's Another Hole in the Head Festival features two weeks of sci-fi and horror...
Thursday 6/12 @ Red Vic
Abbie Hoffman stated the obvious when he titled his autobiography Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture. The volatile, vocal (and...
Thursday 6/12 @ Patricia Sweetow Gallery
Sarah Wagner turns out delicate textile sculptures that resemble tangled roots and vines. Her faux-plant shapes sprout from the gallery's cement...
Thursday 6/12 @ Museum of Performance & Design
Emerging with a rejuvenated image and collection in March, the Museum of Performance & Design mounts an impressive exhibit chronicling the...
Thursday 6/12 @ Exploratorium
With a futuristic, tongue-in-cheek vision, the artists featured in the 2nd Skin fashion exhibit challenge the standard notions of practical clothing....
Thursday 6/12 @ Jancar Jones Gallery
Sean Talley's new series of silkscreen prints at Jancar Jones Gallery contains understated, insightful contrasts. Richly colored, sparse populations of shapes...
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell
Thursday 6/12 @ John Berggruen Gallery
Christopher Brown and Clare Kirkconnell's concurrent exhibitions at John Berggruen Gallery have sympathetic interests: each artist makes work that quietly reinterprets...
Thursday 6/12 @ Berkeley Art Museum
After he broke through as an underground filmmaker in 1958, Bruce Conner kept a close eye on the cultural zeitgeist. He...
Thursday 6/12 @ SFMOMA
Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation's epic video-opera, The Rape of the Sabine Women, is a sprawling, beguiling exploration of classical...
